Demarai Gray said he could understand the disappointment of the Leicester City fans after their home defeat to Cardiff City, but said the players were united in the desire to bounce back at Everton.

After shock wins at Chelsea and at home against Manchester City over Christmas, City were expected to dispatch Neil Warnock’s side, who were without an away win all season.

However, despite creating a host of chances, and keeper Neil Etheridge saving James Maddison’s penalty kick, City were rocked by Victor Camarasa’s added time wonder strike and there were boos at the final whistle from City fans, who had also booed Claude Puel’s decision to substitute Jamie Vardy midway through the second half.

Before Christmas there had been reports Puel had lost the support of many of his players, but Gray said they were united.

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“It is disappointing after dominating a game like that. We were on the back of two good results and I think we deserved another one today but lost it on the last kick of the game.

“It hurts but we’ve got another game around the corner so we’ll try and turn it around. Things like that happen. It was a quality goal.”

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Gray and his team-mates were certainly not pointing the finger of blame at Maddison, who tried to place his penalty into Etheridge’s bottom right-hand corner only for the keeper to guess the right way.